University Of Oklahoma Press imprint: 604 books
Uninvited Neighbors
African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769–1990
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
In the late 1960s, African American protests and Black Power demonstrations in California’s Santa Clara County—including what’s now called Silicon Valley—took many observers by surprise. After all, as far back as the 1890s, the California constitution had legally abolished most forms of racial...
Buffalo Soldiers and Officers of the Ninth Cavalry, 1867–1898
Black and White Together
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
The inclusion of the Ninth Cavalry and three other African American regiments in the post–Civil War army was one of the nation’s most problematic social experiments. The first fifteen years following its organization in 1866 were stained by mutinies, slanderous verbal assaults, and sadistic abuses...
Utah and the American Civil War
The Written Record
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
When Fort Sumter was attacked in April 1861, hundreds of soldiers were stationed at the U.S. Army’s Camp Floyd, forty miles southwest of Salt Lake City. The camp, established in June 1858, was the nation’s largest military post. Utah and the American Civil War presents a wealth of primary sources...
Rediscovering Irregular Warfare
Colin Gubbins and the Origins of Britain's Special Operations Executive
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE), which conducted sabotage campaigns and supported resistance movements in Axis-occupied Europe and in Asia, is often described as Winston Churchill’s brainchild. But as A. R. B. Linderman reveals in this engrossing history, the real genius behind Britain’s...
Teaching Indigenous Students
Honoring Place, Community, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Indigenous students learn and retain more when teachers value the language and culture of the students’ community and incorporate them into the curriculum. This is a principle enshrined in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) and borne out both by the successes of Indigenous-language...
Tarahumara Medicine
Ethnobotany and Healing among the Rarámuri of Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
The Tarahumara, one of North America’s oldest surviving aboriginal groups, call themselves Rarámuri, meaning “nimble feet”—and though they live in relative isolation in Chihuahua, Mexico, their agility in long-distance running is famous worldwide. Tarahumara Medicine is the first in-depth...
by Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
The War of 1812 is etched into American memory with the burning of the Capitol and the White House by British forces, The Star-Spangled Banner, and the decisive naval battle of New Orleans. Now a respected British military historian offers an international perspective on the conflict to better gauge...
Big Dams of the New Deal Era
A Confluence of Engineering and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
The massive dams of the American West were designed to serve multiple purposes: improving navigation, irrigating crops, storing water, controlling floods, and generating hydroelectricity. Their construction also put thousands of people to work during the Great Depression. Only later did the dams’...
Portrait of a Prospector
Edward Schieffelin's Own Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Edward “Ed” Schieffelin (1847–1897) was the epitome of the American frontiersman. A former Indian scout, he discovered what would become known as the legendary Tombstone, Arizona, silver lode in 1877. His search for wealth followed a path well-trod by thousands who journeyed west in the mid...
by Charles S. Bullock III, Ronald Keith Gaddie, Justin J. Wert
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Shelby County v. Holder, invalidating a key provision of voting rights law. The decision—the culmination of an eight-year battle over the power of Congress to regulate state conduct of elections—marked the closing of a chapter...
Violence and Crime in Latin America
Representations and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
According to media reports, Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world—a distinction it held throughout the twentieth century. The authors of Violence and Crime in Latin America contend that perceptions and representations of violence and crime directly impact such behaviors,...
Assassination and Commemoration
JFK, Dallas, and The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The shots that killed President John F. Kennedy in November 1963 were fired from the sixth floor of a nondescript warehouse at the edge of Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas. That floor in the Texas School Book Depository became a museum exhibit in 1989 and was designated part of a National Historic...
The Forked Juniper
Critical Perspectives on Rudolfo Anaya
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Widely acclaimed as the founder of Chicano literature, Rudolfo Anaya is one of America’s most compelling and prolific authors. A recipient of a National Humanities Medal and best known for his debut novel, Bless Me, Ultima, his writings span multiple genres, from novels and essays to plays, poems,...
Return to Aztlan
Indians, Spaniards, and the Invention of Nuevo México
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Long before the Spanish colonizers established it in 1598, the “Kingdom of Nuevo México” had existed as an imaginary world—and not the one based on European medieval legend so often said to have driven the Spaniards’ ambitions in the New World. What the conquistadors sought in the 1500s,...